Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955Douglas Hay, Paul Craven Master and servant acts, the cornerstone of English employment law for more than four hundred years, gave largely unsupervised, inferior magistrates wide discretion over employment relations, including the power to whip, fine, and imprison men, women, and |
Contents
Introduction Douglas Hay and Paul Craven | 1 |
England 15621875 The Law and Its Uses Douglas Hay | 59 |
Early British America 15851830 Freedom Bound Christopher Tomlins | 117 |
Law and Labor in EighteenthCentury Newfoundland Jerry Bannister | 153 |
Canada 16701935 Symbolic and Instrumental Enforcement in Loyalist North America Paul Craven | 175 |
Australia 17881902 A Workingmans Paradise? Michael Quinlan | 219 |
The Colonial Office 18201955 Constantly the Subject of Small Struggles M K Banton | 251 |
The British Caribbean 18231838 The Transition from Slave to Free Legal Status Mary Turner | 303 |
Britain The Defeat of the 1844 Master and Servants Bill Christopher Frank | 402 |
India 18581930 The Illusion of Free Labor Michael Anderson | 422 |
Assam and the West Indies 18601920 Immobilizing Plantation Labor Prabhu P Mohapatra | 455 |
West Africa 18741948 Employment Legislation in a Nonsettler Peasant Economy Richard Rathbone | 481 |
Kenya 18951939 Registration and Rough Justice David M Anderson | 498 |
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Contributors | 561 |
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Urban British Guiana 18381924 Wharf Rats Centipedes and Pork Knockers Juanita De Barros | 323 |
South Africa 18411924 Race Contract and Coercion Martin Chanock | 338 |
Hong Kong 18411870 All the Servants in Prison and Nobody to Take Care of the House Christopher Munn | 365 |
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